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Energy is our Future school competitions: Winners announced

European Schoolnet and PlasticsEurope are pleased to announce the winners of the “Energy is our Future” school competitions 2007-2008. The jury, which was composed of European experts, decided to award 17 teams of students who represent schools from ten countries: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.

In its second year, 2007-2008, the “Energy is our Future” school programme and its competitions aimed to encourage teams of students to submit competition outcomes that focus on three main areas:

Energy efficiency: the impact of design and material selection on energy consumption;

Winner: Captain Clean-up, by Charlie, Lucy and Hazel, from Watford Grammar School for Girls, Watford, the United Kingdom

The winning entry will be turned into a trophy that matches the winning drawing. The trophy will be delivered to all the 17 winning teams, together with the winning cartoon drawing which will be based on the winning entries to the Adventures of FuturEnergia Hero competition.

Being very impressed by the high quality of the entries the jury decided to set up a FuturEnergia Hero Club that gathers five FuturEnergia Hero friends, as follows:

The six winning teams of the "Wanna be a Hero?" and their coordinating teachers will be invited to attend a prize-giving ceremony which will take place in Brussels in September 2008.

Further information

PlasticsEurope and European Schoolnet are delighted to announce that the third year of the Energy is our Future (FuturEnergia) school programme will start in September 2008. The school programme will continue to strengthen, enhance and support energy education across the curriculum in schools by raising awareness on how energy consumption may affect climate change and how advanced materials help save energy.